They liked the straightforward shape, with a desktop terminal almost the same length and width as a piece of paper.

FORBES: Magazine Article

His eponymous Bloomberg terminal is standard desktop equipment throughout the financial services community.

FORBES: Michael Bloomberg

That focus is a part of the mobile computing ethos espoused by CEO Thorsten Heins meant to have BB10 devices be users' personal, portable computing terminal that is simply plugged into a screen -- whether it's a desktop monitor, a car or somewhere else -- that delivers a uniform experience.

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NCs when it announced the Windows Terminal standard: this makes it easier to make cheap (and easy-to-maintain) desktop machines that simply display Windows software which is actually running on a central computer (much as mainframe terminals do).

ECONOMIST: The network computer